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In his last words, Caesar allegedly exclaimed over the fact that his friend and relative Brutus took part in his murder. A person's last words , their final articulated words stated prior to death or as death approaches, are often recorded because of the decedent's fame, but sometimes because of interest in the statement itself.
The Spanish voiceless stops /p t k/ have voice onset times (VOTs) of about 5, 10, and 30 milliseconds, and English aspirated /p t k/ have VOTs of about 60, 70, and 80 ms. Voice onset time in Korean has been measured at 20, 25, and 50 ms for /p t k/ and 90, 95, and 125 for /pʰ tʰ kʰ/ .
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List of last words; Last words of Julius Caesar; Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, an 1844 painting; Sayings of Jesus on the cross, also known as The Seven Last Words; Last Words of the Executed, a 2010 book by Robert K. Elder; The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, an unproduced screenplay by William S. Burroughs
For speakers without this feature, the word is pronounced without the /k/. Final clusters of four consonants, as in angsts in other dialects (/ˈæŋsts/), twelfths /ˈtwɛlfθs/, sixths /ˈsɪksθs/, bursts /ˈbɜːrsts/ (in rhotic accents) and glimpsed /ˈɡlɪmpst/, are more common.
In English, it can represent /tʃ/, /k/, /ʃ/, /x/ or /h/. See article. çh is used in Manx for /tʃ/, such as in the word çhengey, meaning speech, as a distinction from ch which is used for /x/. čh is used in Romani and the Chechen Latin alphabet for /tʃʰ/. In the Ossete Latin alphabet, it was used for /tʃʼ/.
The following is a list of last words uttered by notable individuals during the 19th century (1801-1900). A typical entry will report information in the following order: Last word(s), name and short description, date of death, circumstances around their death (if applicable), and a reference.
The name for the letter is final kaf (kaf sofit). Four additional Hebrew letters take final forms: mem , nun , pei and tsadi . Kaf/khaf is the only Hebrew letter that can take a vowel in its word-final form, which is pronounced after the consonant, that vowel being the qamatz .